On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Christian Schoder <schoc...@newschool.edu> wrote: > hi R-users! > > does anyone know how I can access/print only the first two digits of a > number? if i have the number 23732, i would like to get 23. if i have > 355 i would like to get 35. if i have 4 i would like to get 40.
It's a strange request, but this should do it: substring(as.character(number*100), 1, 2) It will not work on 0 and may not give you what you want on negative numbers and on numbers between 0 and 1, but you get the idea. Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
